The V&A is launching Explore the Collections, a new digital platform that enables everyone from around the world to search, explore and discover over 1.2m objects from the museum’s collections.
Fables for our Time is a triptych of stories about environmental urgencies, that uses folktales and a new collection of emoji to examine humanity’s relationship with the natural environment.
Inspired by Lisa Roet’s dramatic 13m great ape installation on the Society’s building, this series of talks will explore how fabric, one of humanity’s oldest technologies, is being reimagined through art, fashion and design for regenerative futures.
Explore the Leighton House garden to see what minibeasts are living there, their habitats and how we can help provide places for them to live back at our own homes. Free museum entry for accompanying adult.
Go on a journey of discovery and exploration around the Science Museum.
The Museum is excited to finally share Fixing Our Broken Planet, their first new permanent gallery since 2016! Explore the biggest challenges facing the planet and discover science-backed, hopeful solutions that will help us to create a more sustainable world.
From mankind's earliest dreams of flying to the wide-body aeroplanes of today, discover the amazing story of flight. Overhead walkways allow you to get up close to planes suspended in the air while you learn about the incredible people who led this innovation in transport.
Why not plan your visit to South Ken using the Footways walking map available at railway stations and online? You can plan your route away from the busy roads and discover a quiet and alternative side to London.
Don’t think twice! Learn French twice a week at the Institut français and achieve great results!
Book your tickets now! Prepare for a night of supernatural thrills on Halloween eve with "the UK's go-to ghost guy," Danny Robins.
Once again the world’s one and only (and therefore best) family block party returns to Royal Albert Hall's Elgar Room for an afternoon of family fun!
A free exhibition examining how science can help us find more sustainable ways to grow and produce, purchase and cook, eat and enjoy food to help protect the planet.
Available for corporate and private hire, Serpentine South Gallery and Serpentine North Gallery and the Magazine restaurant are contemporary art spaces in which to hold beautiful events.
Gazette Brasserie is the perfect venue for coffee meet-ups, quick lunches, pre-cinema drinks and nibbles or a cosy dinner at the Institut français in London.
Join acclaimed gemologist and jewellery historian Geoffray Riondet as he guides us through a glittering journey – from the delicate dormeuses earrings of the Napoleonic era to the bold geometry of the Art Deco period.
Footways London map highlights quiet and characterful walking routes so you can explore Kensington at a different pace. The paper maps are available at some Central Network Rail stations or plan your quiet route via the new interactive map with geolocation
Explore this cultural district and discover the history of the area with this free walking tour from Go Jauntly, curated by the Royal Geographical Society as part of the programme for Kensington + Chelsea Art Week.
From hefty herbivores to jungle jumbos, discover who's topping the charts when it comes to being the biggest, the tallest and the heaviest of them all. Follow the trail to meet some of world's biggest animals and to find out all about the highs and lows that come with being so big.
Through a series of sculptures and installations, visitors will encounter the delicate yet powerful ways in which Penone reveals nature’s hidden structures, rhythms, and gestures. Free but booking recommended.
A perfect gift for any music lover is the Membership of the Royal College of Music Friends scheme. In addition to priority booking and access to an exclusive programme of Friends events, they will receive regular advance info about RCM events while showing support for young musical talent.
Do you spend a lot of time in the area? Are you concerned about climate change in South Kensington? Share your views in our survey. Discover South Kensington's South Ken ZEN+ programme is seeking input from locals to make our neighborhood greener and more resilient.
Combining the latest augmented reality technology with STEM skills, children can recognise a dinosaurs’ species, what it eats, likes and needs to survive. Young explorers can care for and capture fun photos of themselves interacting with their new dinosaur friend in the backdrop of their home or back garden. Age 7-10
A lovingly dystopian cinema-fantasy as a parable about inequality, racism, and discrimination. Tickets are only £6!
Championing new ideas in contemporary art since it opened in 1970, Serpentine has presented pioneering exhibitions of 2,263 artists over 45 years, showing a wide range of work from emerging practitioners to the most internationally recognised artists and architects of our time. Explore more online.
